Why is NBA Media so much worse than other Major Sports

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Silver is an idiot. They celebrate the product they love. They were gushing over yesterdays game due to the "old school" feel.

 

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It's crazy how when you give us the physicality we've been begging for, good shyt happens

 

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Good article on this topic from Awful Announcing

Sports media has no idea how to actually talk about the NBA

If one thing has been proven throughout this NBA season, it's that the league's current rights partners have no idea how to cover it adequately.

awfulannouncing.com

The First Take segment was such a parody, it could’ve been a skit on SNL.


The day after Alex Ovechkin broke the NHL’s all-time scoring record, P.K. Subban was in the studio. A quintessentially hateable Montreal Canadien, the NHL vet has taken his agitator act to TV, where he routinely lambasts the supposedly “me first” guys in the NBA.


But given ESPN’s record of ignoring the NHL, Subban is probably the best hockey fans could hope for. He was on the network’s signature studio show, ready to debate LeBron James.

What?!

“LeBron’s great, but he ain’t Kobe, he ain’t Jordan for me,” Subban blustered at one point, defending his all-time NBA player rankings.

Shannon Sharpe, who played 14 Hall of Fame seasons in the NFL, pushed back vociferously.

The argument–loud, inaudible, between two decorated ex-athletes–encapsulates the current sports media scene to a tee. Recently, AA’s Matt Yoder pointed out that sports media has no idea how to talk about the NBA. As the Ovechkin segment shows, the sports media also has no idea how to talk about the NHL, either.


Or MLB. Or tennis. Or golf. or anything besides the NFL and big-time college football. The true irony is that the sports media really has no idea how to talk about sports.

 

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Good article on this topic from Awful Announcing

Sports media has no idea how to actually talk about the NBA

If one thing has been proven throughout this NBA season, it's that the league's current rights partners have no idea how to cover it adequately.

awfulannouncing.com

On ESPN it’s like they’re constantly trying to manufacture debates while also chasing social media virality, so you get an output of forced hot takes and trying to shoehorn the same regurgitated debates.

I will continue to say that The Decision changed NBA media forever. It made free agency and star trades a 365 day news cycle and it unintentionally made First Take the biggest show in sports, which made Skip & Stephen A’s brand of “coverage” the most visible

 

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Good article on this topic from Awful Announcing

Sports media has no idea how to actually talk about the NBA

If one thing has been proven throughout this NBA season, it's that the league's current rights partners have no idea how to cover it adequately.

awfulannouncing.com

great article. thank you for posting

nasty thang is, this applies to all commercial American media. you can watch a 24 hour newscycle and walk away uniformed of pertinent national and international affairs... it also favors showcasing pundits arguing about trivial matters

al Jazeera went of of business somewhat recently in the states and it was unsuprising. they were a network of structured discourse and news trying to operate in a "news" ecosystem dominated by entertainment

is an alternative approach even viable in this commercial landscape?

 

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On ESPN it’s like they’re constantly trying to manufacture debates while also chasing social media virality, so you get an output of forced hot takes and trying to shoehorn the same regurgitated debates.

I will continue to say that The Decision changed NBA media forever. It made free agency and star trades a 365 day news cycle and it unintentionally made First Take the biggest show in sports, which made Skip & Stephen A’s brand of “coverage” the most visible

The article also blames Tebow’s run and Skip Bayless glazing him.

Its just a disaster.

great article. thank you for posting

nasty thang is, this applies to all commercial American media. you can watch a 24 hour newscycle and walk away uniformed of pertinent national and international affairs... it also favors showcasing pundits arguing about trivial matters

al Jazeera went of of business somewhat recently in the states and it was unsuprising. they were a network of structured discourse and news trying to operate in a "news" ecosystem dominated by entertainment

is an alternative approach even viable in this commercial landscape?

its the dumbing down of the population

I don’t think most people are even interested in anything serious. I don’t say it to
sound totally disrespectfu, but this forum
is an example.